Tehran, Aug 22, IRNA -- French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he would meet Iranian officials ahead of this weekend’s G7 summit and make proposals to help de-escalate tensions between Washington and Tehran.

"In the coming hours before the G7 I will have meetings with the Iranians to propose things,” Emmanuel Macron told reporters.

Iran’s foreign minister said earlier this week he would meet Macron and Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian in Paris on Friday.

According to euronews, France has sought over the summer to play a mediating role as relations between the United States and Iran deteriorated, although there has been little sign of any breakthrough.

With unilateral US sanctions are harmful, Iran has said it will gradually reduce its commitments to a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers until the European powers party to the accord--France, Britain and Germany--do more to ensure Tehran benefits financially from the accord.

Mahabad, Sept 15, IRNA – Vice-President for Parliamentary Affairs Hossein Ali Amiri said on Sunday that the Government has carried out preparatory works for entry of women to the stadiums as soon as possible.

Tehran, Sept 15, IRNA – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his message on International Day of Democracy, 15 September 2019, urged all governments to respect the right to active, substantive and meaningful participation.

Tehran, Sept 15, IRNA – Iran's President Hassan Rouhani sent a message to his Nicaraguan counterpart to José Daniel Ortega Saavedra to congratulate his country's Independence Day to the Nicaraguan people and government.

Mashhad, Sept 15, IRNA – Minister of Interior Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said that John Bolton’s sacking by US President Donald Trump showed that the hardliners in the US failed to push forward their policies against Iran.